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Booting Up: Financial Software
And Web Sites Aimed at Kids

By

Kathryn Haines

Updated Dec. 11, 1996 4:59 p.m. ET

Zach Linder of Great Neck, N.Y., takes a seat at a personal computer and starts crunching the numbers. He enters his goal (a television set for his bedroom) and its price ($300) on a spreadsheet template.

Next, his income, derived from $4 a week for doing chores at home; $10 a pop from raking lawns; and $1 an hour for baby-sitting -- "the cheapest rate going" in his neighborhood, he says. Last are his expenses -- mostly to...